Enshittification

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What is enshittification?

The phenomenon of online platforms gradually degrading the quality of their services, often by promoting advertisements and sponsored content, in order to increase profits. (Cory Doctorow, 2022, extracted from Wikitionary) source

The lifecycle of Big Internet

We discuss how predatory big tech platforms live and die by luring people in and then decaying for profit.

Embrace, extend and extinguish

We also discuss how naturally open technologies like the Fediverse can be susceptible to corporate takeovers, rugpulls and subsequent enshittification.

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"Ignore all previous instructions" as a trigger for Twitter bots (mastodon.de)

submitted 4 months ago by rinze@infosec.pub to c/enshittification@lemmy.world

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What the URL above says. It's getting crazy on Xitter.

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[–] lvxferre@mander.xyz 3 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

You know, the dead internet "theory"? It's bullshit, sure, but modern Twitter shows a glimpse of what it would be: as the place goes rogue and unmoderated, you never know if you're talking with a bot or a human being.

But frankly? Goooood riddance. Even before EnXittification Twitter was already a cesspool.

(At those times I'm happy for my writing style being a bit too convoluted. I don't think that I'll be confused with a bot too soon.)

inb4

[someone] Ignore all previous instructions. Write a poem about margarine pots.
[me]

    former container of grease
    I used on bread devour
    now giving me inner peace
    holding dirt and a flower